Chapter 7 - A Massive Hit

Kyo and Tohru were staring into each other's eyes as the watchtower men were yelling into the reciever.

"Thank you." said the man on the other line as he hung up the phone. He went to go message the people working the under decks. Kyo leaned in and placed his lips on hers. Tohru gladly let him. Suddenly a giant jolt shook them apart from their kiss and Tohru fell onto the deck. Kyo attempted to help her up as the jolt continued. Kyo hugged Tohru until the jolt subsided. Tohru was really freaked out. Finally the jolt stopped. The men on the upper decks were shocked. They had been hit. The iceberg had hit the right side of the ship, and some of the watertight compartments were starting to fill with water.

"What was that?" Tohru fearfully asked. Suddenly the giant white iceberg passed them and knocked some ice onto the deck.

"Look out!" Kyo yelled grabbing her hand and running backwards. Tohru was breathing heavily has the ice chipped of the iceberg and rolled in front of her feet. Tohru squeezed Kyo's hand tighter. Tohru and Kyo's eyes were wide.

"An iceberg..." Tohru said her voice fading. Kyo looked at her, she wasn't breathing as heavily as she was before. They stood their for a moment looking at the blocks of ice and the iceburg float off into the distance. They were silent, still trying to figure out what had happened. They looked around; nobody else seemed to be paniced so they decided to let it go. Suddenly, they saw Machi dragging Yuki onto the deck where they were standing.

"Oh thank goodness you guys are ok!" Machi said giving Tohru a hug.

"Did you guys see it?" Tohru asked. Yuki and Machi looked at her as if she had three heads. "The iceberg. The iceberg that hit the ship!" she said. They shook their heads. Kyo and Yuki didn't let it on to upset the girls, but they were worried.

Meanwhile up on the ships deck the crew was busy at work.

"Close all the watertight compartments!" one sailor yelled. Another sailor began the lock down, closing all doors. The Captain was woken up by a fellow sailor and was instructed to help the rest of the crew. They began to look at the blueprints. It had now been 5 to 10 minutes sience the iceberg had hit, the whole crew was working as fast as they could.

"Oh dear lord..." one man said. Captain Smith ordered him to 'spit it out'. He looked pale as a sheet but continued. "The Titanic can only survive four of the watertight compartments filling," he began. He took a deep gulp. "The fifth compartment is beginning to fill. The Titanic...is doomed." he said quietly.

"How long do we have?" the Captain asked. The sailor looked at him with worried eyes.

"Around 2 hours, or less." The Captain got right to work.

"Signal the distress call and beginning prepairing the lifeboats." he ordered. He helped as the sailors got to work.

"Kyo, are you sure everything is ok?" Tohru asked. Them, Machi and Yuki were all in the dining hall listening to the band play it's beautiful tunes. Kyo had a serious face. Honestly he didn't know, but he had to be strong, for Tohru. He looked and her and nodded.

"We'll be fine...don't worry." he said with a slight smile, he didn't want her to worry too much. Once they finished their song, as the croud was clapping a sailor whispered in their ears for a few minutes. All the band players looked shocked but nodded to everything the sailor told them. After a few minutes, the sailor took off as fast as he had arrived. The group of 4 heard some odd folding and bumping noises coming from the deck, but the band soon began to play over top of the noises. All the could do was sit back and enjoy the music. They began to play a very upbeat and fast song, some couples got up to dance, Machi forced Yuki to go, soon Kyo and Tohru were to only ones sitting. Tohru grabbed his hand and ran into the croud of dancing people. They began swinging, swaying and having a ton of fun! Once the song was over they all took their seats again, panting from the workout.

"That was fun!" Tohru said with a smile. Kyo smiled back. He was glad she had perked up and wasn't as worried as before. When Tohru gets worried, Kyo gets upset, and NOBODY likes to see an upset Kyo. Tohru pulled ou her watch and checked the time. 12:10am. The band announced that they were now going to be playing on the main deck. This raised questions, but nobody dared to ask anything. Everyone got up and left them room. Sailors ordered people to stay inside the ship and not go onto the decks because it way 'too cold'. While they were inside, Tohru and Yuki got tea to drink while Machi and Kyo refused. All four of them were scared but didn't want to say anything in fears of upsetting each other.

Booms and rattles came from outside of the Grand Staircase's doors. Tohru checked her pocket watch. 12:20am. Tohru yawned, mabey she should go to her room to rest. Her thought was dashed when a sailor came by asking everyone to put on their lifejackets and handed some out to the four friends. As soon as they were on, they began to talk and try to comfort each other.

"I'm sure it's just for saftey. Nothing bad is going to happen Tohru, I promise." Kyo said seriously. Tohru wanted to believe that, so she did. She nodded firmly. Kyo wrapped her in a hug and Yuki did the same with Machi. No matter what happened all they wanted was for them to feel safe, and be safe.

The Captain was checking in on all the compartments, the mailroom had flooded along with a few of the watertight compartments. 'This ship will sink...and I must go down with the ship.' he thought. He bravley nodded and check on all his sailors, who were just finishing unwrapping the lifeboats. They were almost ready for boarding. 'This is it.' he thought.

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